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Michael Crehan has been a firefighter in San Francisco for five and a half years. He’s based at Haight-Ashbury Station Number 12. And unlike most firefighters, he lives in the city and bikes to work. He is also a long-time member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.

Streetsblog first connected with Crehan after he tweeted about Vision Zero and efforts to make streets safer. He can’t speak for the department, but strictly as a bike rider who “happens to also be a firefighter.” He has some strong views on Vision Zero, response times, and the windshield perspective of many in the department.

Streetsblog spoke with Crehan about these issues and more.

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SB: I guess we know the answer to that. So how do we get rank-and-file firefighters to start experiencing the streets differently?

MC: A lot of fire stations provide parking. I show up to Station 12 in the Haight, and then I’ll get detailed to downtown, and when I started they said “Dude, get a car! What if you get detailed?” But I have a bike with an electric motor. I go from the Haight to downtown in twenty minutes, at eight in the morning. In a car it takes you an hour.

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Paul d'Orléans relaunches The Vintagent, the original and first online motorcycle culture publication, as a full-service media company with new digital assets, a content creation team, advertising partner Bonhams, and Guest Editor Jay Leno

Swede Rickard Bröms spent 14 years building brands and marketing them for clients. Fed up with relying on public transport, he partnered with scooter experts Peter Klangsell and Mikael Klingberg, who founded KopEnScooter.Nu in 2004. Ten years later the company expanded into electric bicycles under the brand elcykelvaruhuset.se, with triple-digit annual growth. The result is Vessla, a 2,200euro no-frills electric scooter that’s selling out in small batches in Europe as it inches toward American shores in 2019.

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We make them in China. They are ten years ahead of Europe. But you really need to know where to go. It’s a jungle. So sorry, but no fancy industrial designer. But hey, this is our virginity model. Our Tesla Roadster. We are already under way with Vessla 2 and Vessla 3. The 2 s/b easier to pedal...

Hero Electric launched eight new products at the Indian Auto Expo 2018. Four of the products are based on the hi-speed scooter platform and the other four based on the electric bicycle platform in collaboration with its UK subsidiary, A2B.

DOETINCHEM, The Netherlands – A Dutch dealer recently clearly expressed the confusion that exists around the categorization of e-bikes in combination with type-approval regulations. The confusion is about an, as the supplier puts it “All-purpose electric bike that looks like a bike but feels like a jet with a 750-Watt motor — three times more power than typical 250-Watt electric bikes and a top speed of 25 km/h.”

The Dutch dealer commented on a report online published by Bike Europe’s sister magazine ‘Tweewieler’ on the Benelux launch of the RadRhino e-bike by Rad Power Bikes, a Seattle-based direct-to-consumer electric bike company.

Hehe... "looks like a bike but feels like a jet"...

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Unknown e-bike category

What comes to light with the comment from this Dutch dealer is the existence of a still unknown e-bike category that falls within the European type approval regulations scope which came into force on January 1, 2017. This unknown e-bike category is named L1e-A – “powered cycles”. The technical specifications linked to this category list: a maximum power ranging from 250W up to 1 kW and a maximum speed of 25 km/h. interesting is also that such L1e-A – powered cycles can have a dual operating mode: pedal assisted as well as throttle.

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A Bellcycle is a new kind of bicycle that is built from a DIY kit and lets you ride with a straight back and hands kept in a natural position. It’s modular and can even be set up to carry cargo.

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They even thought of the option to provide an electric motor to their Bellcycles. They worked with Analog Motion to build an electric kit that can upgrade the Bellcycles to become e-bikes. The kit comes with a rear wheel, battery, sensors and everything you need to install it.

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Today, the Danish Road Safety Agency released a draft for a trial on letting so-called Speed Pedelecs use bike lanes in the country. Speed Pedelecs are able to reach a motor-assisted top speed of 45 km/h (28 mph) as opposed to standard Pedelec e-bikes that can go 25 km/h (15 mph).

This draft comes after a law covering small personal electric mobility gadgets like roller skates and skateboards was put into effect in december. Needless to say, this new draft has already spurred some strong arguments on both sides.

According to Ingeniøren, the director of the Danish Bicycle Association Cyklistforbundet, Klaus Bondam, thinks this is a deadly proposal...

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Now, I would like to add that both sides have good points. To be perfectly honest, I own legal e-bikes and let’s call them ‘not-so-legal’ e-bikes. And I actually put most of my miles on the legal bikes. My commute is partly 10 miles of countryside with more risk of hitting a cow than hitting a person, and part 10 miles in dense urban traffic with a high risk of hitting a person or another vehicle.

In this context, 15 mph is simply the responsible and safe way to play it. However, when I (maybe) ride my not-so-legal long-wheel-base home-welded shitty-brakes e-bike with a full horsepower at my disposal and a top speed of 30 mph, I do actually slow down in the urban areas. The problem is, a lot of people don’t.

Entertaining/Amusing/maybe series re early ebikers... Stay tuned for Episode Five re "The Mysterious Woman of Tadcaster" (buried without her electric bicycle...) See also "DNA"... See also yersinia pestis aka the "Black Death"... (clearly not related to EA - Ebike Addiction...) About the decimation of the 20th-century automotive industry...

(Hint: Ebikers survived...)

Correct. So use of the powered "auto" mobile is NOT a "plague"... Yah. Right.

Hehe... "The Woman" Vashti MacLachlan aka the daughter of a "lachlan"... watt the English spelled as LAUGHlin... but the Celts referred to as those "strangers on the lands by their lochs" ("loch lanns") aka folks from the Scandinavian countries who went traveling in their long boats up rivers and over oceans aka "viking".

Hehe... "The Woman" Vashti MacLachlan aka the daughter of a "lachlan"... watt the English spelled as LAUGHlin... but the Celts referred to as those "strangers on the lands by their lochs" ("loch lanns") aka folks from the Scandinavian countries who went traveling in their long boats up rivers and over oceans aka "viking".

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Japan Today publishes original content, including interviews with celebrities and business executives, and translations of pop culture articles from popular Japanese magazines and newspapers.

A 20-year-old female university student in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been sent to prosecutors on a manslaughter charge after she hit a 77-year-old woman pedestrian with her electric bicycle on Dec 7. The woman died in hospital on Dec 9.

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Your journey to the office is probably already on wheels — but you could power those wheels, with a small push from an electric motor on Uber's new bike-share option.

Uber partnered with Jump Bikes in San Francisco to offer an electric-motor assisted ride to users for the next nine months (and pull in the bike commuters to conquer even more of the commuting market) — so I gave it a spin.

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Another entrant to the bike-sharing race is newcomer Pace from bike-share startup company Zagster. Bluetooth-enabled tethers along with a ring lock to immobilize the back wheel allows users to park bikes to any public rack or post, so it's a similar concept to Jump but with a secondary lock method. Zagster CEO Tim Ericson calls Pace and Jump's locking method the "lock-to dockless model." He said in a phone call it's a cheaper, city-friendlier bike-sharing option. It integrates easily into city infrastructure — you can find and drop off a bike anywhere it can be safely and legally locked.

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Instead of sharing bikes with the masses, there's always the option to buy your own bicycle and commute to work on your own two wheels. But the electric-assist on Jump to help get up hills or speed up your ride is an alluring option that can be pricey to own outright.

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Uber Bike may be too easy and accessible to not use — it's so well streamlined into the existing Uber app. Plus, it'll take a long time to hit $3,000 worth of rides.

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E-bikes are truly electric vehicles that can take the place of a car. Still legally a bicycle ebikes are the best of both worlds as they’re all the fun of biking but also effortlessly get you further faster since the bike does most the work. No more sweating, knee pains and no more hills! Electric bikes are the most widely sold electric vehicles in the world. FattE-Bikes are where recreation meets transportation.

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The performance bicycle was not always a carbon fibre miracle of engineering, poised to leap up mountains and dance down switchbacks. There was a time when the two-wheeled ride of your dreams had gleaming chromed spokes, wide tires, and a cockpit inspired by a muscular American low rider or Italian café racer upon which a roguish figure like James Dean may have perched.

While their handmade frames and motorsport aesthetics may harken back to a different time, the bicycles made by Vancouver’s Vintage Iron E-Cycles are far more modern than meets the eye.

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Commuter-friendly electric mopeds seem to be an important part of the future of powered two-wheelers. While not as exciting as a tire-shredding superbike, they’re a much more realistic purchase for your urban consumer who needs affordable, efffective ’round-town transport. That’s why it’s exciting to see Michael Uhlarik bring his SURU electric cycles to the Toronto show. They’re a bold, innovative design, made with high-quality parts instead of throw-away bicycle components, and best of all—the bikes are made in Canada. While you’re at the SURU booth, don’t forget to check out the Amarok P1 at the back of the booth as well; while Uhlarik is focusing on SURU these days, the Amarok was Canada’s first electric superbike, and is a pretty cool piece of engineering on its own.